Rasheed rules Shaq Suns
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It was supposed to be a great ball game.
ABC had the Phoenix Suns vs. the Detroit Pistons at 2:30 pm Eastern time for all of us Piston fans.
A blockbuster battle of the team of no stars vs. the Shaq Suns.
Just how would Steve Nash direct Shaq in the half court?
Your intrepid author mistimed his afternoon nap and woke up in the 3rd quarter. My Pistons had a 30 point lead.
30 points? Ok, you knew there would be problems getting Shaq into the Phoenix run and gun system, but 30 points?
It was a contrast of styles with Phoenix running around outside picks, one man after another, to get lanes to the basket for Stoudemire or mid range jumpers, while receiving Steve Nash passes, while Detroit set up one on one mismatches of Tayshaun Prince or Rasheed Wallace or ran Rip Hamilton through inside screens or used McDyess on high pick and rolls.
Billups played smart, with 14 points and 11 assists, steering the offense to the post as much as he could to combat the Suns’ potent fast-break offense. It worked, too — the Suns had only 10 fast-break points.
“I didn’t come down a lot on the break and shoot my three that I love to shoot,” Billups said. “That gets them into their fast break. I just wanted to control, control, control and get some guys down there with me.”
He looked in particular for Rasheed Wallace, who abused Phoenix forward Amare Stoudemire with his turnaround jumper in the post to score a team-high 22 points. He also had eight rebounds.
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The announcers did their best to keep it entertaining. Know what they talked about?
Rasheed Wallace. Nothing but Rasheed for the remainder of the game. You would have thought Rasheed was the best player on the planet.
At one point, ABC even replayed several of Rasheed’s moves scoring bucket after bucket on turn around post moves.
Now as a Piston fan, it can be told that the Pistons are not very good without Rasheed. When Rasheed turns it on, he is unstoppable.
When Rasheed goes down in the paint on defense, you will not score. He stops all the top players and is a key to the Pistons great defense.
Often with Rasheed it is keeping him motivated. You see there are nights when Rasheed just gets bored or cranky and then you see little production and maybe a technical.
That is the Rasheed that most fans think of when thinking of Rasheed.
The real Rasheed is one of the best big men in the league.
Did you know Rasheed keeps a library of books on the team plane and reads about everything from current world leaders to Genghis Khan? No, you didn’t.
Did you know that Rasheed has taken all of the talented rookies on the team under his care and tutelage? No, you didn’t. Coach Flip Saunders calls him Mother Goose.
As they say in the Shrek movie, Rasheed has layers. He is an Onion boy.
Did you know he is also not publicized for giving to a lot of local charities?
Today Rasheed was motivated and dominated the Suns!
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